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Black African mainline churches and economic struggle: A black liberation perspective on Miriam Makeba’s ‘A luta continua’

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
As part of the ecumenism movement, mainline churches have contributed to, and were in the forefront of fighting the apartheid government, which favoured the interests of white people as opposed to black people.
Jacob Mokhutso
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Social Determinants of Health and Health‐Related Quality of Life: The Potential Mediating Role of Social Activities, Access to Medical Services, and Access to Social Services

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster, Ashleigh Powell, Claire Hutchinson, Richard Leibbrandt, Svetlana Bogomolova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘We do not father another man’s child’: Child adoption among Christians in Enugu-Ezike community

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Child adoption is a concept that provides the legal right for a person or persons to assume the parental role for a child who is not their biological offspring.
Ndidiamaka V. Ugwu, Kanayochukwu M. Okoye   +1 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Analysis and Organised Religion [PDF]

, 1995
This chapter analyses some phenomena in organized religion from the point of view of economics. It is argued that religious activity derives from the individual's quest for sense and justification that molds institutional and other features of religious ...
Jones, Eric, Reynolds, Vernon, Schlicht, Ekkehart   +2 more
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Understanding the Housing and Support Experience of People With Complex Disability in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis of Submissions to the Disability Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz, Fiona Carey, Libby Witts, Jessie Spence, Peter Mulherin, Megan Topping, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identity, race and faith: The role of faith in post-Apartheid South Africa

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
South Africa has experienced an unprecedented influx of migrants in the 21st century. Immigration and race have contributed to the raising of important questions of identity and social inclusion.
John Klaasen
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A partnership for prosperity agency: A case study of InnerCHANGE South Africa

Theologia Viatorum, 2020
Practical ways to serve African communities of poverty motivated this case study. It explores how the church could be missional as an agent of prosperity in communities of poverty.
Kasebwe T.L. Kabongo
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Harnessing Loose Part Media for Cognitive Development: Evaluating Its Effects on Early Mathematics Play Activities in Early Childhood Education

Indonesian Journal on Learning and Advanced Education (IJOLAE)
The implementation of Loose Part media has proven to enhance various aspects of children's development, particularly in cognitive development. This study aims to evaluate the impact of implementing Loose Part media in early mathematics play activities on
Mei Purnama Nasution, Darliana Sormin, Jumaita Nopriani Lubis, Sri Wahyuni, Adek Kholijah Siregar, Abdulroman Mahir   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source